the light on the pi will only stay red
i have tried multiple different boot options on both usb and SD including pinn
but I cant get any response from my pi including no video output
tried many different things in the troubleshooting forum
and i either have not been able to do them due to lack of bieng able to use the pi or they have not worked
I cant get any screen at all
no action light blinks even after multiple hours
tried giving extra power from my build hat power supply and the pi power cable at the same time nothing
multiple different bootloaders no different results
called the pi shop in Cambridge they said its dead but i think there is a possible solution somewhere that someone has
and I don't know how to reset the EEPROM through the gpio pins cos I don't know how to connect the pins to my computer {I use a laptop}
I don't know how to solder nor do I have a soldering kit
I don't have a touch screen or anything to connect to the display port {not the HDMI ports the port on top of the pi }
it broke when I was assembling my freenove 4wd smart car kit
it just turned off while I was plugging something in {not into the pi its self but a part of the car} and that's when it broke
it had also rebooted when I accidentally dropped a screw on it lightly
I also cant get to the files of the pi by plugging the pi into the computer
its not lack of power
I think its an EEPROM corruption
possibly shorted
I think there was a small spark when I dropped the screw
I think pins ether 2 and 4 or 4 and 6 touched
pins 4 and 6 touched and it corrupted a lot of things when i was screwing the thing in
the previous times like with the screw the pi had force rebooted and with the screw i think that time it wasn't the pins that force rebooted it
i think the screw had bridged a gap and discharged multiple capacitors
also I think I have managed to get a couple flashes from the action light by using the usb or SD boot thing in the imager but I haven't had any luck from the OS yet
.ashthedash
please give reasons why this might be happening and or how i can fix this
.ashthedash
the computer i am trying to fix this with has been used to the point where i tried to open file explorer and literally my desktop froze like a computer would with a game explorer.exe almost stoped working
k9t33n
yup this is deffo dead
k9t33n
the gpio is directly connected to the main chip on the pi so a short circuit like that can easily kill the pi
.ashthedash
Ok
.ashthedash
I'm still gonna try
.ashthedash
Btw it's 1 am for me rn
.ashthedash
And I will even learn to solder if I have to
.ashthedash
I have had it for like 2 years with no problems
.ashthedash
I will make it work
.ashthedash
probbaly more
k9t33n
sure go ahead
jake12348500
i have the same problems but mine is freezing when i updated it